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The Lens

The Lens is the FotoFocus editorial platform, highlighting our programming and featuring in-depth conversations on photography and the moving image drawn from perspectives and insights in our community, throughout our region, and around the globe.


The Hughes Project 2.0

Posted on March 14, 2022

The Hughes Project 2.0 is a collaboration between Hughes STEM High School art students and UC-CCM Theatre Design & Production students to project photographic artwork created collaboratively by both groups onto the façade of the beautiful and historic Hughes High School building. The work includes projection mapping and lighting, and is an experience of the personal writ large. BLINK Projection Installation Project: Coinciding with the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial: World Record, BLINK includes several photographic and lens-based light projects presented by FotoFocus. This outdoor site-specific project address the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial theme and the experience of BLINK through projection mapping, murals, and... Continue reading The Hughes Project 2.0

ImageOhio, A Changing World

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ImageOhio, A Changing World is this year's theme for the annual juried exhibition, celebrating its 22nd year. Just by being on Earth, at any given moment, and doing something or even nothing, we are already changing the world. We live in an ever-evolving world, but we need to be reminded of the important things that have not altered, and will not, if we keep our priorities in proper order. Our foremost objective is to exhibit the best lens-based work as determined by our jurors. A call for entries is conducted to accomplish our goal of reaching new artists.  Continue reading ImageOhio, A Changing World

THE OVERSTORY

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Trees are a record of the world, holding time and marking it in ways we cannot completely fathom, and in ways that are unappreciated by most. They breathe air into the sky to sustain us, while also sequestering elements from the air into the ground and in their own bodies. In this way they serve as intermediaries quite literally between heaven and earth. The Overstory explores the notion of time as record through these great fellow beings we live amongst and how they hold a kinship with the lens, always seeing and experiencing, protecting their... Continue reading THE OVERSTORY